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Sandy a galvinizing moment for climate-change awareness?

More than half of Americans now believe that climate change caused by human activity is occurring, and 58% say they are “somewhat” or “very worried” about it, according to a September poll by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication.

“After this crazy weather we’ve been having the last several years — Irene last year, Sandy this year, the drought, the fires, floods — it’s getting more and more difficult for people to deny what everybody sees with their own eyes,” said New York climate scientist Scott Mandia, coauthor of a book on the rising sea level. “I think people are starting to connect the dots.”…

Science policy analyst and University of Colorado professor Roger Pielke Jr. disagrees. “I’m pretty sure by Tuesday, Mayor Bloomberg and Sandy will probably be a back-page story,” said Pielke, author of “The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won’t Tell You About Global Warming.”

“The disaster du jour” doesn’t spark the kind of sustained political support necessary to foster action on climate change, he said. “Disasters are quite normal in general. To try and make the case to people that we have an unusual or large number is kind of a hard case to make.”

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Say, dead-tree newspapers are a biiiiiig contributor to global warming – knocking down carbon-dioxide eating trees to make paper, all the energy that goes into making ink, trucking the stupid heavy piles of journ0listic garbage around to stores and paper boys…. not to mention their lay-about useless journ0lists who drive everywhere to where “news” is happening (like an Obama golf game) so they can “cover” those big events. So let’s all root for newspapers to cease production and help stop global warming! Yay!

It should be a galvanizing moment for an epiphany that BO does not have it in his power to slow the ocean’s rise and never did. The fact that so many people still cling to this ridiculous promise says something discomfiting about a segment of the American population.

Our country spans a gigantic continent bordered by immense oceans. The fact that people think we can “stop” what Nature throws at it by keeping our tires inflated and the thermostat at 66 degrees smacks of nothing but a cargo cult.

What really gets me is that the idiots who claim to believe in man-caused global warming would much rather expend their time and resources attempting to confiscate and redistribute wealth, instead of taking concrete steps to deal with claimed effects of climate change, like, say, building unbreachable gates to the subway systems in NYC or building storm barriers. But no,

many environmentalists are firmly opposed to a big public-works project, fearing that it would give people a false sense of security about the problems posed by climate change. They prefer taking smaller steps

It’s pretty obvious that the science isn’t as important to them as having people believe that there is actual science. If I asked the people they polled “explain the science to me”, what response would I get? They threw out their actual equation a few months ago and replaced it with a doubling of the carbon sink factor, and no one even noticed. When you do that, it’s proof that you didn’t have a clue and you are just adjusting your equations based on what you can get away with at each point in time. They start with the begging the question fallacy of assuming we are experiencing the man made climate change, fix their equation to show that we are in the midst of man made climate change and then show the results as proof that we are experiencing climate change.

Science policy analyst and University of Colorado professor Roger Pielke Jr. disagrees. “I’m pretty sure by Tuesday, Mayor Bloomberg and Sandy will probably be a back-page story,” said Pielke, author of “The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won’t Tell You About Global Warming.”

Sheesh. Pielke ought to stick with what he knows — weather and climate — and not go making predictions about the politics machinations and/or competence of Mayor Bloomberg, Governor Cuomo, and President Obama.

“The disaster du jour” doesn’t spark the kind of sustained political support necessary to foster action on climate change, he said. “Disasters are quite normal in general. To try and make the case to people that we have an unusual or large number is kind of a hard case to make.”

Hey stupid, look at the Yale Poll. They’ve made the case to 58% of the public.

Great movie, “Never go full retard.” So many PC lampooned with that script that it’s hard to pick the best ones.:)

OT- I weep for my fellow humans who get sucked into this whole AWG hoax. If it where not a hoax they would be serious about doing something other than carbon credits, redistribution of wealth and more government control over our lives. The simple fact that so many people don’t see that saddens me.

Our country spans a gigantic continent bordered by immense oceans. The fact that people think we can “stop” what Nature throws at it by keeping our tires inflated and the thermostat at 66 degrees smacks of nothing but a cargo cult.

JeremiahJohnson on November 5, 2012 at 5:23 PM

I think you skinned that grizz, Pilgrim.

What really gets me is that the idiots who claim to believe in man-caused global warming would much rather expend their time and our resources attempting to confiscate and redistribute our wealth, instead of taking concrete steps to deal with claimed effects of climate change, like, say, building unbreachable gates to the subway systems in NYC or building storm barriers. But no,…

mbs on November 5, 2012 at 5:42 PM

Just a little clarification, but you are spot on about the blathering spittle.